This list appeared in the Guardian Friday Review on 29th January 1999. Tom
Cox compiled it.

Some notes – A panel of 50 hand picked critics and music makers compiled the
list. The brief was to select their top 20 all time favourite albums that
don’t appear in most of the other all time top 100 albums. See the ultimate
album lists #1 & 2 for a rough idea of the exclusions. They were also
excluded from selecting albums that were less than 2 years old (to prevent
the farce of having an album 3 months old at number one, as in the Q
reader’s poll in 1998). A personal note: No Bob Marley albums – although
only Legend was excluded!

Alphabetical order. This does not necessarily follow the original list. One
album per artist. Though this rule is relaxed if the artist is listed as
working with someone else [ie Brian Eno is also allowed the Brian Eno &
David Byrne album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts].